Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Mountaineering

In June 1950, a team of mountaineers was the first to conquer an 8,000-meter peak. Maurice Herzog, the leader of the expedition, became a national hero in France, and "Annapurna, " his account of the historic ascent, has long been regarded as the ultimate tale of courage and cooperation under the harshest of conditions.

In "True Summit, " David Roberts presents a fascinating revision of this...

knowledge of the risks in order to stay safe. This new guide by renowned avalanche expert Bruce Tremper is simple,

accessible, and offers just the basics an Everyman's guide to avalanche safety that won't overtax your average ski

bums, but will keep them safe when they're going for 12 consecutive months of powder. Avalanche Essentials is for

everyone who wants to learn the fundamentals of avalanche awareness, focusing on systems and checklists, step-by-step...

On the night of May 10-11, 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. Following the tragedy, numerous accounts were published, with Jon Krakauer's" Into Thin Air" becoming an international bestseller. But has the whole story been told?
"A Day to Die For" reveals the full, startling facts that led to the tragedy. Graham Ratcliffe, the first British climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest twice, was a first-hand witness, having spent the night on Everest's South Col at 26,000 ft, sheltering from the deadly storm. For years, he has...

The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world's highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years. They offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the...

When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world's most dangerous mountain, recounting one of the most dramatic disasters in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective.

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award and an official selection of the American Alpine Club Book Club.

The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men pioneers of enlightenment scaled their summits, classified their strata and flora, and banished the phantoms forever. A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mount Everest, "The Summits of Modern Man" surveys the far-ranging significance of our encounters with the world s most alluring and forbidding heights.

Our obsession with who got to the top first...